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Patnted Oct. 8, 1889..

UNITED STATESv PATENT OEEICE. 7

GEORGE OROUOH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TRUNK-CORNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,473, dated October8, 1889. Application filed April 15, 1889- Serial No. 307,230. (Nomodel.)

Vapen of the corner by an open frame having projections or knobsthereon. These rawhide corners have been stamped up to shape out of asingle piece of material whenin a moist condition and pliable, and thenafterwardv dried. I'have found that these corners are expensive andwasteful of material, and that economy is effected and other materialsmade available for this purpose by making this corner out of two piecesand suitably protecting and securing the same on the corner of a trunkby malleable corner-frames and angle-frames.

In carrying out my invention I employ for cornenpieces rawhide,vulcanized ber, or any other suitable material, and construct the sameof two pieces=one piece being at and the other bent at right angles-thetwo being adapted to come together at their edges and cover thetrunk-corner, and I employ cornerframes and angle-frames of malleablecast metal, which surround the corner of the trunk and cover up thejoint in the rawhide or ber corner, the parts together making a verystrong and desirable corner for trunks.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view representing thetrunk-corner complete according to vmy invention. Fig. 2 is aperspective view of the rawhide or ber corner in two pieces. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal section at the line w rr, and Fig. i is a cross-section atthe line y y.

a represents the body of the trunk, and b the usual angle coveringriveted thereto.

c c represent the corner-pieces, of rawhide, vulcanized ber, or othersimilar material. This corner is made of two parts, the portion c beingcut out of a at piece, with one straight edge and a curved edge, and thesameis bent central and equally upon the line 4 4, the halves being atright angles. The portion c is also at, and has two straight edges atright angles to each other and one curved edge, and the same is adaptedto t directly upon the edges of the portion c, as will be seen in Fig.2, and when thus brought together forms a complete corner-piece for atrunk.k

I employ the metal corner-frame d, covering the apex of the doublecorner and at the same time covering part of the lapjoint of the twoportions c c', and I also employ the angleframes c c', which surroundthe edges of the trunk-corner over the other portions of the lap-jointof the corner-pieces c c', and these frames d c c are secured by rivets,as shown in Fig. l, through the rawhide or vulcanizedber .corner to themain body of the trunk.

The ends 9 of the corner-frames d are concaved to receive the taperingends l0 of the angle-frames e c', as will be seen in Fig. 3, and theouter ends of the angle-frames e c have projections or lips at f, whichcover up and also act to consolidate and bind together the ends of thelapjoints of the portions c c', and it will be observed that thecornerframes d, together with the angle-frames e e', as described,completely cover, protect, and obscure the lap-joint of the portions cc', so that in use nothing could engage or get in between the lap-jointsto separate thesame or injure the arts.

The rawhide or vulcanizedltber corner is secured to the trunk also byrivets at 5, and I employ a metal strap h, passing around the corner ofthe trunk and conforming in contour to the lower edge of the rawhide orvulcanizedber corner, and the same is also secured by rivets at 6.

I prefer, for sake of lightness, to make the corner-frame dwith openingsat 7 8 but these openings do not materially reduce or interfere with thestrength of the corner.

I claim as my invention-m l. The trunk-corner, of rawhide or vulcanizedber, in two parts, in combination with metallic corner and angle framescovering` the lap-joint of the twopart corner, and secured by rivetswithv said twopart corner to the body of the trunk, substantially as setforth.

2. The trunk-corner, of rawhide or vulcanized ber, in two parts, incombination with corner and angle frames covering the lapjoint of thetwopart corner, and secured by IOO frames covering and protecting thelap-joint of the two-part rawhide or vulcanized-fiber corner,substantially as and for the purposes specified.

Signed by me this 11th day of April, A. D. 1889.

GEO. CROUCH.

Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, WILLIAM G. MOTT.

